ARC-1 with Joule Studio: Bringing Real ABAP System Context into Joule

Series note: This post is part of my AI ABAP development series, where I go from AI development in general, to ABAP-specific problems, and then to ARC-1. In the previous post, I showed ARC-1 with Microsoft Copilot Studio. The idea was that SAP system context should not be locked inside a local IDE. If ARC-1 runs centrally on SAP BTP, it can also be used from Teams, Microsoft 365 Copilot, SharePoint, Jira, and other places where functional consultants, architects, support teams, and project leads already work. This post is the SAP-native version of that idea. If Microsoft Copilot Studio is close to the Microsoft workday, then Joule is close to the SAP workday. SAP describes Joule as the unified assistant experience across SAP’s solution portfolio, and Joule Studio as the place to build custom Joule agents with SAP and non-SAP integrations. So the question is not only: can Joule call another MCP server? The better question is: can the ARC-1 capabilities be brought to the place where SAP…